Distance Learning

To Register:

To register for a program, please visit Connect2Texas and click on “Events.” Available programs are listed by date and time. Narrow your search by selecting Amon Carter Museum of American Art from the program filter.

What You Need to Connect:

Internet connection

A webcam

A microphone

Speakers

The ability to project (preferred)

A test call will be scheduled upon registration.

Can’t Visit Us? We’ll Visit You—Virtually!

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art offers a variety of interdisciplinary, interactive distance learning programs that bring the museum to your classroom via webcam. Focusing on the collection, a museum educator engages teacher and student audiences in discussions and activities exploring art, culture, history, language arts, science, and more. These curriculum-based programs align with state and national standards. Programs offered may be modified according to grade level and curricular specifications. Special program requests are reviewed with three weeks’ notice. Programs last up to one hour and serve up to thirty students at a time. A minimum of ten students is required.

*Programs are FREE for Texas schools and organizations and cost $75 each for those outside the state of Texas.

Art Work: Careers in an Art Museum

Learn about the exciting careers of museum professionals. Hear about the experience and education needed to become a part of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art team, all while getting a peek at the inner workings of the museum. This program is not live. Recording available upon registration.

Art of the American West

(Grades 5–12), History, Social Studies, Visual Arts

Discover the ways artists have interpreted the western United States since the nineteenth century. Topics include westward expansion, Manifest Destiny, the transcontinental railroad, archetypal figures of the West, and more.

STEM to STEAM

(Grades 1–7), Math, Science, Visual Arts

Examine artworks and explore how artists incorporate science, technology, engineering, and mathematic concepts and processes into their practice and precision.

Poetry and American Art

(Grades 1–8), Language Arts, Visual Arts

Identify elements of figurative language and flex creative writing muscles while reading and establishing connections between classic poems and American art. Select poems will be delivered to educators upon registration.

Art and Music

(Grades 1–12), Music, Social Studies, Visual Arts

From opera to jazz, activate the senses while discovering a range of artists inspired by the culture, beats, melodies, and rhythms of music since the nineteenth century.

Beasts, Birds, and Bugs: The Art of Scientific Observation

(Grades 1–3), Science, Visual Arts

Investigate ways artists have used scientific observation to represent the world around them. Through close looking, data collection, and hypothesizing, students will describe, identify, and classify creatures and their habitats depicted by various artists.